Sunbonnet.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

CHARLES WILLIAM BEEHLER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

SUNBONNETI SPECIFICATION forming art of Letters Patent No; 69 dated December 1901- Application filed May 2'7, 1901. Serial No. 62,0281 .(No modeL) To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES WILLIAM BEEHLER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sunbonnets, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to sunbonnets for womens wear and which are adapted to shield the face and neck of the wearer from the direct rays of the sun.

The object of the present improvement is to providea simple, efficient, and economical construction and arrangement of the component parts of a sunbonnet which affords both lightness, stifincss, and superior non-conducting properties to the forward or crown portion and with which the skirt or cape portion is capable of ready and convenient attachment and detachment as required, all as will hereinafter more fully appear and be more particularly pointed out in the claims. I attain such object by the construction of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation, with parts broken away, of a sunbonnet embodying the present invention; Fig. 2, a fragmentary sec tion of the main body or crown portion of the bonnet, illustrating the construction of the same according to the present invention.

Similar numerals of reference indicate like parts in both views.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the hood or body portion, having the usual bowed shape and adapted to project beyond the face in front and at the sides, so as to shield the face from the direct rays of the sun Such body or hood portion will in the present invention consist, primarily, of two thicknesses of cloth sewed or otherwise secured together at the front end and left disconnected at the rear end,except as hereinafter described,and,

secondarily, of an intermediate corrugated separator-sheet 2, of cardboard or other like material, arranged between the two layers of cloth aforesaid and adapted by its corrugated or crimped nature to form a series of air-con taining cells within the body of the hood to prevent in a very perfect manner the transmission of the heat of the sun to the head of the wearer. r

3 represents a series of buttons or other like fastenings secured to the lower and back margins of the hood or body 1 to afford means for the attachment of the combined curtain and poll-piece'4 of the bonnet in manner to admit of the ready detachment of the parts for the purpose of washing and doing up the same.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A sunbonnet having a hood or crown portion formed by two layers of cloth and an intermediate separator-sheet having a crimped or corrugated form, substantially as set forth. 2. A sunbonnet having a hood or crown portion formed by two layers of cloth and anintermediate separator-sheet having a crimped or corrugated form, and a curtain and poll piece made detachable and secured in place by buttons or other fastening means, substantially as set forth.

Signed at St. Louis, Missouri, this 24th day of May, 1901.

CHARLES WILLIAM BEEHLER.

Witnesses:

JAs. C. BROADWELL, THOMAS D. TOWNSEND. 

